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National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an association of book reviewers in the United States. With a membership of nearly 700 active book critics, the NBCC was founded in 1974. Each year, the NBCC presents awards for the finest books published in the English language. Shown below are NBCC Award winners in the category of Fiction since it was first awarded in 1975.

(found at: http://www.bookcritics.org/)
1. Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
 
2. October Light
by John Gardner
 
3. Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
 
4. The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
 
5. The Year of the French
by Thomas Flanagan
 
6. The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
 
7. Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
 
8. George Mills (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
by Stanley Elkin
 
9. Ironweed
by William J. Kennedy
 
10. Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
 
11. The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Anne Tyler
 
12. Kate Vaiden
by Reynolds Price
 
13. The Counterlife
by Philip Roth
 
14. The Middleman and Other Stories
by Bharati Mukherjee
 
15. Billy Bathgate
by E. L. Doctorow
 
16. Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
 
17. Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
 
18. All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
by Cormac Mccarthy
 
19. A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
by Ernest J. Gaines
 
20. The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
 
21. Mrs. Ted Bliss (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
by Stanley Elkin
 
22. Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
by Gina Berriault
 
23. The Blue Flower
by Penelope Fitzgerald
 
24. The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
by Alice Munro
 
25. Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
 
26. Being Dead: A Novel
by Jim Crace
 
27. Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
 
28. Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
 
29. The Known World: A Novel
by Edward P. Jones
 
30. Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
 
31. The March: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
 
32. The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
 
33.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
 
34.
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2666: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano
 
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